TRAMPS
is a not-for-profit voluntary group that provides a high quality, low cost mobile cinema
service to run film events at community venues.

It was set up in 2002 by local people
as a response to the Community Investment Prospectus public consultation process in
Settle, which highlighted the demand for a cinema in the Ribblesdale area, as the three
nearest cinemas are all around 25 miles away.
We operate within roughly a 30-mile
radius of Settle.

We organise film shows ourselves and also help other groups run their
own shows using our professional quality equipment
(see below).
The group is run entirely by volunteers
and we are always looking for people to help with film shows and running the group.
To find out more please see below.

For the most part, a film is shown each month on two occasions at two different
venues in the Ribblesdale Area.
The web site always carries the future programme in
both summary form
and in glorious Technicolor™.

Shows normally start at 7.30pm and tickets are usually £5, available on the door.

If you would like details of forthcoming shows sent to you by email,
please
please click here.
To keep running costs to a minimum, we regret that we are unable to send details
by post.

If you are interested in booking TRAMPS for a film show or
organising a show yourself using our equipment please
contact John Vendy on 015242 62083 or email johnvendy@yahoo.co.uk.

If we organise a show:

We book the venue

We book the film (chosen either by TRAMPS or as agreed with the venue)

We provide the equipment and volunteers to set it up and operate it

We promote the event in local newspapers and with posters

We pay for the venue and film hire and take all of the income from ticket sales

Either we or the venue provides refreshments and arranges volunteers to sell them
and to tidy up afterwards (whoever does the refreshments takes
the income).

If you organise a show:

You book the venue

We book the film (chosen by you)

We provide the equipment and one volunteer operator

You pay us for film hire (see below),
and a nominal fee to cover equipment wear and tear,
transport and insurance

You provide at least three people to help set up and dismantle the equipment

You promote the event

You set the ticket price and take all of the income
from ticket sales

You provide refreshments and arrange volunteers to sell them and to
tidy up afterwards, and you take the income.

As the film shows are public events, we have to adhere to the public performance and copyright laws.
This means that we have to rent DVDs from a recognised distributor.
Alternatively, we can get a licence from the distributor and then
you can use your own copy or one rented from the corner shop.
The fee is usually £116 (£100 for licence only) or 35% of the ticket sales, whichever is the greater.

We are always looking for new volunteers to help with
film shows and running the group.
This includes helping to set up and operate the
equipment, helping to serve refreshments, publicising film shows and distributing
posters, etc.
Volunteers generally help at shows about once a month at venues close to
where they live.
However involved you want to be, we’d welcome your help.
If you are interested please
or send us a message by clicking here.
There is currently an urgent need for help with
projection mainly in Settle.

Grants have been used to set up the group and buy the equipment.
We currently don’t receive any assistance with
on-going costs, and so all income generated from
film shows is invested back into the group.

For booking enquiries
contact John Vendy on 015242 62083 or email johnvendy@yahoo.co.uk.
To be put on an email list for details of forthcoming shows
please click here.
For enquiries about
volunteering,
film suggestions,
or anything else please
click here.

Other TRAMPSes

There are other web sites called TRAMPS over which we have no control
and with which we have no
relationship beyond the accidental similarity of name.
Sadly, at least one of them is one with which we certainly would not wish to have any relationship.